Month: September 2024

This leaked Call of Duty: Mobile skin is a gun turned into a battlefield, a miniature battlefield with tiny men who run around on top and fight and die, all while carried by a tiny guy who lives only to fight and die on a miniature battlefield inside of your phone, which is in turn held by you, a tiny person who lives only to oh God.

Let’s back up here. A video of this upcoming skin for CoD: Mobile was shared to YouTube by Alyn Gamer, and I barely know where to start with the thing⁠—it hardly resembles the historical MG 42 machine gun it replaces. You’re essentially holding a long chunk of terrain with a tank and crashed fighter plane lodged into it. The battlefield is crisscrossed by a tiny stream towards the stock of the gun, and little guys can be seen runn…

Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that “products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.” But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that rating because they involve blockchain trading.

Also unlike Steam, which banned NFT games in 2021, Epic has no issue with them: CEO Tim Sweeney said in 2022 that “developers should be free to decide how to build their games,” and it’s up to Epic users to decide whether or not to play with them. That’s fair enough, and the first blockchain-based game, Blankos Block Party, appeared on the Epic Store a few months later.

But the situation got co…

Oof. Xbox Series X/S players will have to put up with 30 fps in Starfield, Todd Howard has confirmed to IGN in an interview.

“I think it’ll come as no surprise, given our previous games, what we go for,” Howard told the site. “Always these huge, open worlds, fully dynamic, hyper detail where anything can happen. And we do want to do that. It’s 4K in the X. It’s 1440 on the S. We do lock it at 30, because we want that fidelity, we want all that stuff. We don’t want to sacrifice any of it.

“Fortunately in this one, we’ve got it running great. It’s often running way above that. Sometimes it’s 60. But on the consoles, we do lock it because we prefer the consistency, where you’re not even thinking about it.”

Fair enough, I suppose, but I personally turn down graphics settin…

The rumour mill is kicking into high gear for the next next-gen graphics card from Nvidia, but somewhat bizarrely that’s not the RTX 4070. Instead, following on from the RTX 4070 Ti released at the start of January, you’d maybe expect the noise out in the twittersphere to be all about the next card launching on the same GPU.

But no, what we’ve actually got is regular Twitter snooper @kopite7kimi with their own rolling ‘leaks’ about the inevitable RTX 4060 Ti graphics card launching… well, some time later this year. 

Some folks have spoken about a Computex reveal, which feels like a good frame to me, but that sure feels a long way off in a cold January.

Following on from an initial leak in mid December last year—stating the card would be based on an AD…